The lab received some great news last week -- the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration selected our project "Exploring the diversity of disease vectors and their pathogens in Amazonia' for funding. Nick and I (and a to-be-determined filmmaker) will boat all over the Peruvian Amazon in March 2016 in search of mosquitos, ticks, and fleas. Here is Nick (before, during, and after) I told him we got the award.